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An Essay on the Roman Senate
by CHAPMAN, THOMAS
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good. Heavy edgewear; endpapers excised. Small, unobtrusive previous ownership signature in contemporary hand on title page
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham, Printer to the University; and sold by W. Thurlbourn and T. Merrill; J. Whiston, R. Dodsley, and M. Cooper; J. Fletcher; and J. Hildyard, 1750. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Heavy edgewear; endpapers excised. Small, unobtrusive previous ownership signature in contemporary hand on title page. Binding square & tight, text otherwise clean & bright. Zeuxian Society (Caldwell Institute) bookplate to front pastedown, with the motto nunc adbibe puro pectore verba (Hor. Ep. 1.2.67 'now drink up words with a bright, undefiled mind'). The Caldwell Institute, named after Joseph Caldwell, the first president of the University of North Carolina, was a short-lived, early 19th-century Presbyterian school in North Carolina designed to provide a classical education imbued with Christian principles.. 8vo. 5.25 x 8.25 in. viii, [1] contents, [1 blank], 398 pp. + 16 pp. index. Text in English, with notes in English, Latin & Greek. Contempoary brown calf, with five raised spine bands & four compartments, ornamented in gilt, tiled in gilt on leather spine label. Cambridge churchman Thomas Chapman's first and only book. Chapman was a master of Magdalen College. A rather scarce title.
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- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 343
- Title
- An Essay on the Roman Senate
- Author
- CHAPMAN, THOMAS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good. Heavy edgewear; endpapers excised. Small, unobtrusive previous ownership signature in contemporary hand on title page
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Printed by J. Bentham, Printer to the University; and sold by W. Thurlbourn and T. Merrill; J. Whiston, R. Dodsley, and M. Coope
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1750
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